| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Sam Peckinpah's West: New Perspectives. Edited by Leonard Engel. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. viii + 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographies, index. $21.95, paper.)

As Robert Merrill points out in this interesting collection of essays, some eight thousand films have been produced in the genre that we call "westerns," but of these probably only forty are enduring works of art, and fewer than twenty are real masterpieces. Of the acknowledged masterpieces, the majority are the work of only four directors. Sam Peckinpah, in just over a decade, directed three of these masterpieces: Ride the High Country (1962), The Wild Bunch (1969), and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). During the same decade, he also directed three memorable westerns in a lighter vein: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Junior Bonnor (1972), and The Getaway (1972).

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